Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
underwood .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word underwoods.
Examples
-
True swamp : underwoods and overtime /Gainesville, Fla.
Archive 2007-01-01 David S. Carter 2007
-
True swamp : underwoods and overtime /Gainesville, Fla.
New Library Comics: Week of January 8, 2007 David S. Carter 2007
-
With swift steps I passed through the long ‘square’ of underwoods, clambered up a hill, and instead of the familiar plain
-
Who but the sportsman knows how soothing it is to wander at daybreak among the underwoods?
-
I happened to have hung there between two engravings a little sketch of underwoods not unlike this; one comes down, the other is hung instead -- a little bit of jobbery of which I am still ashamed.
-
The hideous swarms lay dead in the moist steaming underwoods, in the green swamps, in the sheltered valleys, in the ditches and furrows of the fields, amid the monuments of their own prowess, the ruined crops and the dishonored vineyards.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
-
The forests here were damp and tropical so far as herbaceous underwoods were concerned, the trees were loaded with mosses chiefly pendulous
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
-
I know not why one should sigh after the blossoming gorges of the Himalaya, when our forests are all so crowded with this glowing magnificence, -- rounding the tangled swamps into smoothness, lighting up the underwoods, overtopping the pastures, lining the rural lanes, and rearing its great pinkish masses till they meet overhead.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
-
Along the river where dense underwoods grew, hundreds of
Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola Edson Leone Whitney
-
And to this day, when summer breezes 25 blow and the wild flowers bloom in meadow and glade, the voice of Perdix may still sometimes be heard calling to his mate from among the grass and reeds or amid the leafy underwoods.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.